deliberate lie
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdeliberateandlie
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deliberate
adjective
uk/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/
(often of something bad) intentional ...
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lie
noun[C]
uk/laɪ/us/laɪ/
something you say that you know is ...
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(Definition ofdeliberateandliefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To present pension funds as a panacea however would be adeliberatelie.
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In order to secure a conviction under that provision, one has to show that what was told was adeliberatelie.
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In justice, should the defendant not be warned also that if he tells adeliberateliethat is capable of being corrobation?
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I can procure affidavits from two people who heard the conversation to say that that is adeliberatelieon the part of the police.
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There was never a more gross ordeliberatelie.
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To talk as if there is no unemployment in the mining industry is either to tell adeliberatelieor to have one's eyes closed.
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I suggest that that is adeliberatelie.
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Either that was adeliberatelieor no one had even troubled to make the inquiry.
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That was a calculated anddeliberatelie.
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But perhaps we can say that reasonable people can willingly adopt sincere yet (as it turns out) misinformed opinions, whereas no reasonable person can willingly rely on deliberate lies.
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An untruth can result from many other things, and not least from deliberate lying.
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The most disastrous results may be brought about by deliberate lying, of which this is a notorious example.
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Deliberate lies were told about me during the previous general election campaign.
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I find it difficult not to characterise what it says as anything other than outright and deliberate lies.
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If he was talking about the printing unions, he was either telling deliberate lies or did not have a clue what he was talking about.
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Much of the opposition has been based on deliberate lies or on evidence which, to say the least, is dubious.
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The amendments deal with the telling of deliberate lies during an election campaign about a candidate in that campaign, with the intention of damaging his vote.
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Looking round the world today one finds that practically every broadcasting system is spreading deliberate lies and fanning hatred and prejudice of one people against another.
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Conwy county borough council has told deliberate lies to the schools in my constituency in order to cover up the reason for cutting school budgets.
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He accused the communists of spreading deliberate lies.
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